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Haiku

Your teacher may have given you a handout about haiku. Before you begin this activity, read the haiku handout and learn about this elegant form of Japanese poetry.

The haiku form has three lines. The first and third lines are the shortest. The middle line is the longest. In a pure haiku, the first and third lines each have five syllables, and the second line has seven, for a total of 17 (5 + 7 + 5 = 17).

At times, haiku uses chopped or fragmented and condensed grammar to achieve an effect. There is no punctuation in the Japanese originals, though many translators supply some for the sake of clarity.

See surviving sons
Visiting the ancestral grave
Bearded, with bent canes

It is reported that Basho and a student were going through the fields looking at darting dragonflies. The student made a haiku.

Red dragonflies
Take off their wings
And they are pepper pods

Basho said, "That is not haiku. If you wish to make haiku, you must say it like this:

Red pepper pods
Add wings to them
And they are dragonflies."

Read the haiku below and revise them so they achieve an effect.

Running toward second
Sliding as the ball whizzes by
I am safe!

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An owl in a tree
At night catching little bugs
Quick he flies away!

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Butterfly flying
Gently in the summer air
Please come down to me!

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Run, little mouse, run
The cat is right behind you
Hop, little mouse, hop!

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Bird in a treetop
Singing sweet pretty song
It makes me listen!

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Be my valentine
Be my valentine now
Today is the day!

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A boat in the lake
Is wandering by itself
Floating by and by

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A sailboat sailing
In a gentle London breeze
Sails of gold

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Sail sail sail
Sailboat come to me
I want to play with you now

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Haiku often works by creating a clear image in the first two lines, and then using the third line to bring about a surprise or sudden change in mood or perspective.

Learning haiku
Waiting, and then finally
A pretty accident

Even beside the
Rows of cars and houses
Children write haiku

Snow having melted
The whole village is brimful
Of happy children

A good way to practice haiku is to remove the third line. Read the first two lines. Then complete the poem by writing the third line. If you wish, after you complete these haiku, you can compare them with the original on the haiku handout. But for now, don't try to remember the original. Have fun seeing what pictures and ideas jump into your mind.

The cold wind screeches!
All the howling night it cries
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Be a good boy
And look after the house well
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Buddha on the hill
From your holy nose
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Though a noted place
The man pays no attention
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The years are going
I have kept my gray hairs
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How beautifully
That kite soars up to the sky
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Hark to that cuckoo
Singing, singing in flight
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When I think of it
As my snow, how light it is
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Into the old pond
A frog suddenly plunges
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Rice field maidens,
The only things not muddy
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The warm summer breeze
Rushes through barley plants
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Going yesterday, today
Tonight... the wild geese
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The toad. It looks as if
It could belch forth
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The peasant hoes on
The person who lost the way
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Since settling to earth
The high spirit of that kite
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Snow having melted
The whole village is brimful
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Haiku often make observations about everyday events. The weather, seasons, nature, pets, friendship, foods, games, and moods are all subjects for haiku. So close your eyes, find an image, and write a short description of that image for the first line of your haiku. For example:

Tomatoes on a vine

Now write a longer second line,

Tomatoes on a vine
So round and red and sweet

And the shorter third line,

Tomatoes on a vine
So round and red and sweet
Will a worm find you?

My Haiku

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Visual Presentation

Many haiku poets accompanied their poems with beautiful watercolors or ink drawings. You may enjoy doing a watercolor or drawing to accompany your haiku. The haiku can be copied carefully onto the drawing paper after the illustration is successfully completed. If you wish to photocopy the poem and illustration, black ink works well. But you could also experiment to find out what other materials reproduce well.

Meet with your writing support group and share some of your haiku. Listen to what people like most and least. Then return to the computer and revise your poems, taking into account what you learned.

My Revised Haiku

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Write about what you learned and how you felt doing these haiku activities. What was easiest and what was hardest for you? How do you feel about yourself as a writer?

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